[nfb-talk] Teaching Braille, to the elderly

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

Show her your NLs player and show her how she can read on her own and her husband can do something on his own.  Maybe he might want to play cards with a friend and she can read a talking book.  For a few dollars you could get her an alarm clock or a watch.  There is a lot of small things you can do for them.  Just your companionship is a big help.  It lets her know that blind people can do more than just sit in a chair, all day and be read to.  

Terry Powers
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Lester [mailto:jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2012 9:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Teaching Braille, to the elderly

She, and her husband are in the same room, and he reads the Bible to her.
This is sad, because, what if (God forbid,) he dies, before she does?
Who will read to her, then?
I'll see if she has a recorder, and all of that, in the next two weeks.
My friends, go twice a month.
Blessings, Joshua

On 3/24/12, d m gina <dmgina at samobile.net> wrote:
> I would ask her if she had any players to read with anything like that.
> As far as braille, I would do that last.
> Asking her if she has a recorder to take down numbers anything like that.
> it is hard to get them started when they know the world is at an end.
> Glad you met her though and I hope you can keep checking uup on her.
>
> Original message:
>> I was ministering at a nursing home, on Thursday, when I met this 
>> lady, who had lost her sight, due to Macular Degeneration.
>> She has been totally blind, for 2 years.
>> I offered to teach her Braille, and this was her response.
>> "I'm too old, to learn!"
>> I told her, that noone is ever too old to learn, and tried to share 
>> some of our NFB philosophy with her.
>> What else should I do, to encourage her to learn Braille?
>> Thanks, Joshua
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